March Magazine Selections Include Pacifist Debates and Klondike Tales
The March issue surveys diverse topics from the North American Review and Century. Notable pieces include Goldwin Smith on Is the Constitution Outworn, Melville on Our Future in the Pacific, and Thwing on Personal Morals and College Government. It also covers Alaska Klondike explorations, Bird songs by John Burroughs, and reform debates. The Century complements with cave and river journeys, while St Nicholas and Woman's Home Companion present travel, science, and seasonal features with literary fiction and practical menus.
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North American Review
Goldwin Smith
Doe Foreign Missions
Francis E. Clark
D. D
United Society of Christian Endeavor
G. W. Melville
United States Navy
Russia
EK. FP. Laud
United States
Cuba
John H. Latane
William Howard Mussell
J. A. Girdner
M. D
A. W. Quimby
Mammoth Cave
Kentucky
John BR. Proctor
State Cleologiat of
Castaigene
John Sidney Webb
Klon-dile
Webb
Alaska
Yukon
Klondike
Alaska Commercial Company
Edward S. Curtis
Jona Stadling
Andree
Sara Y. Stevenson
Mexico
Maximilian
John Burroughs
Richard T. Ely
James Clarkson
Des Moines
Groy
Woman's Home Companion
The Cheat Lakes and the Great Lakes Commerce
The article argues the Great Lakes commerce surpasses the Suez Canal in scale. It notes 1917 lake tonnage around 100,600 and warns of vast coal, iron ore, wheat, lumber, and manufactured goods moving via Duluth Superior and the Straits of Mackinac. It highlights the Lake Michigan gateway as a vast transport artery with inexhaustible iron ore and other resources feeding the system.
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Mirch
St. Nicholas
Cheat Lakes
W. &. Harwood
Suez Canal
Great Lakes
Lake Michigan Pointe
Straits of Mackinac
Boo
Yin Thia
Great West
Duluth
Superior
Rupertor
Indemnity vs War Debate Over Cuba and Spain
The New York Sun argues the court of inquiry should decide if the Maine was blown up by outside forces and warns against immediate war with Spain. It cites past incidents with Chile, Virginius, Chesapeake to support cautious diplomacy and possible indemnity.
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Cuba
Reland
Spain
Maine
Havana
Anamiaseider
Madrid
Euch
Estreeta
Valparaiso
Santase de Cuba
Pt Wce
Virginius
Logether
United States
Great Britain
Chesapeake
Defencelers
Aer
England
Iron mines of Lake Superior rival world leaders
The article describes Lake Superior iron mines as world leading, with vast supply expected for centuries. It notes the long, indirect transport routes by lake and river to markets, including journeys down rivers to mines and long lake crossings before reaching Ontario and beyond.
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Lake Superior
St. Lawrence
Welland Canal
Ontario
The Biggest Gun Now Under Construction at Watervliet
The article describes a sixteen inch breech loading gun at Watervliet Arsenal as the largest U S gun ever built and the first of eighteen similar weapons planned to be produced over time. It emphasizes the gun's astonishing power and the novelty of the design based on new ideas.
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University Bulletin
University of Pennsylvania
New York
Bethelehem Iron Company
Watervilet
Bandy Monk
Romer Shoal
New York Harbor
Siee
Paris
Watervnlet Arsenal
United States
The Mammoth Cave Air for Consumption Cures
John R. Proctor describes Mammoth Cave Kentucky as a source of pure dry air. He notes ruins from 1843, long silent reservoirs, and claims the cave air could aid consumption and asthma in sanatoriums with controlled ventilation.
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Mammoth Cave
Kentucky
John R. Proctor
State Gelogiat of
Proctor
Westminster Hotel Gets New Proprietor Crawford
On Monday last Mr. Crawford a prominent hotel man from Philadelphia and Chicago became proprietor of the Westminster Hotel on Sixteenth Street and Irving Place replacing retiring George Murray. Crawford resigns as manager of the Hotel Walton Philadelphia to take the Gotham post. He has prior Gotham hotel experience as former manager of a popular hotel.
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BD. Crawford
Philadelphia
Chicago
Westminster
Sixteenth Street
Irving Place
George Murray
Crawford
Walton
Gotham
Bargain Footwear Sale Ads Reported
Ladies box calf lace boots and button lace styles discounted from four to two ninety five. Men's heavy enamel shoes cut from six dollars to four fifty. Misses and children's box calf shoes priced from two dollars to under a dollar fifteen. Various price reductions noted across grades and sizes.
Crawford’s Hotel Leadership Shines in Quaker City
The Hotel Albert on West Eleventh Street reflects Mr. Crawford’s executive skill as Wins ton rises among leading Philadelphia houses. His method and style win patrons who embrace his approach, as the Hotel Reporter notes in New York on January 26, 1808.
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Albert
West Eleventh Street
Winston
Quaker City
Crawford
la Crawford
Holul Reporter
New York
That Young Man Should Apply For A Job To A Dime Museum
A Chicago News cartoon caption depicts a parent quipping about his daughter’s suitor. The observant father jokes that the young man should seek work at a dime museum, prompting a sharp reaction from the daughter as she descends for breakfast.
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Dordrecht
W. 8. Harwood
Harwood
Jake
Sweden
Frank R. Stockton
L'Clonnois
Clement Fesendre
Walter A. Wyeeff
Wilson
Town Agricultural College
William J Stone
Missouri
Democratic Party
Ite Future
DermeTatlo
Prank Db. Pavy
Pavey
China
Clarence Cary
Egypt
A. Silva White
WH. D. Money
Hawai
John T. Morgan
Rome
Edward W. Bemis
M. Alexandre Gullmaint
Edwin J. Prindle
United States Patent Office
H. B. Rood
Simon Newcoah
G. R. Carpenter
Columbia University
The
New York Sun
Sarah Serges
Muscovietta
Cor
Lacka
Wyoming Avenue
Long’s Sons Greater Scranton
Storma
Rouwring River
the Westminsters
Newark
Lackawanna and
Wyoming Aves
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